ZIP 42642 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 42642 (Russell County, Kentucky) at a minimal 13/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 27/100 against active distress of 6/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (83/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (45/100), structural risk (27/100), mortgage stress (21/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (27/100) and mortgage stress (21/100).

The peak-phase market in 42642 posted values that rose 4.7% over the year, and 32% higher over three years, at 33/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Vacancy runs 21.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. At $54,100, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 74% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 22.6% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Population is roughly 12,951 with a median age of 39. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $152,600 (2.6× income, relatively affordable). There are about 6,700 housing units across 42642. Around 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100.

On the whole, 42642 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.